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PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...
PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...

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Enable support for AWS S3 Server Side Encryption on S3 Buckets

We need B2Bi AWS S3 Client Service adapter to support AWS S3 Server Side Encryption.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 6 Planned for future release

AD/LDAP authentication in ICC

Currently we are required to use SEAS for LDAP authentication. However, using SEAS as any tool will add more resources to the worker pool. While deploying SEAS does not require a license, there is a cost involved in adding CPU and memory to SEAS P...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Under review

Management of OFTP2 Certificates = Time Consuming with SBI

On SBI, OFTP2 management is time consomming.
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Connect:Direct RESTAPI at the CD nodes (including Z) support

We would like be able to use RESTAPI services to access Connect:Direct at the z/OS node level (not via CDWS) in order to handle job abends with NDM status
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 8 Functionality already exists

Include SORBNET maps in FinPay PLUS package

As domestic markets increasingly adopt ISO20022 standard, Financial Institutions are challenged to ensure integration of these new maps in their validation architecture. In this context, our customers are asking to incude support for SORBNET (Nati...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Under review

Include TAIWAN FISC RTGS maps in FinPay PLUS package

As domestic markets increasingly adopt ISO20022 standard, Financial Institutions are challenged to ensure integration of these new maps in their validation architecture. In this context, our customers are asking to incude support for TAIWAN FISC R...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Under review

Connect to SMB shares from Sterling B2B Integrator hosted on Unix / Linux

For Sterling Integrator hosted on Unix/Linux OS, there is no direct capability to exchange files with Windows Network Shared folders. The recommended solution from IBM for this is to use a samba client on the Unix/Linux machine and mount the windo...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

Support for SHA-3 cryptographic algorithms

to support the below emerging cryptographic algorithmsSHA-3, including ALL variants listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik: i/SHA-3#Instances
10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 0 Future consideration

Option to search existing AS2 relationship based on AS2 ID under Legacy Inflight

Currently, We don't have an option to search for an existing AS2 relationship based on AS2 sender/receiver ID. We only have an option to search based on PPID or URL contains option. It will be useful if we have an option to search based on AS2 ID's.
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Needs more information

Reject clearly the SSH key when unencrypted

When checking-in a new SSH user identity key, if the key is not encrypted, then SBI accepts it anyway but the key is unusable (check-out failure). If SBI requires the key to be encrypted then it should mention it clearly and it should not allow th...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 1 Future consideration